Two Decades of DDoS Attacks and Defenses
Lumin Shi
Committee: Jun Li (chair), Reza Rejaie, Lei Jiao
Area Exam(Feb 2020)
Keywords: DDoS attack, DDoS defense, CDN, SDN

Two decades after the first distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the Internet continues to face DDoS attacks. To understand why DDoS defense is a difficult problem, we must study how the attacks are carried out and whether the existing defense solutions are sufficient. In this work, we review the latest DDoS attacks and DDoS defense solutions. In particular, we focus on the key advancements and missing pieces in DDoS research.